The two Hispanic visitors whose matter was dismissed after being caught with fake visas and counterfeit Labour documentation at the TB Lettsome International Airport nearly two weeks ago are back before the court on fresh charges. Magistrate Innocent had dismissed […]

Residents and visitors are now being invited to start booking flights through the Taddy Bay Airport of Virgin Gorda as the facility as reopened. The airport reopened last Friday, November 2, Managing Director of the BVI Airports Authority (BVIAA) Denniston […]

The construction worker who reportedly burglarized his employer’s home during a so-called ‘bathroom break’ has been slapped with an 18-month prison sentence at Her Majesty’s Prison. Twenty-eight-year-old Kyle Baronville was sentenced after pleading guilty to the May 2018 burglary when […]

The Department of Disaster Management (DDM) is advising residents and visitors to brace for more showers in the BVI on Tuesday, November 6. Citing forecasts from the Antigua and Barbuda Meteorological Services, the DDM said unsettled weather will be produced […]

Four cases of scabies have broken out at Her Majesty’s Prison in Balsam’s Ghut. These cases of scabies – which is a contagious skin disease marked by itching and small raised red spots caused by tiny mites – was discovered […]

As authorities progress with the BVI’s enVision 2040 project, Chief Planner of the Town and Country Planning Department Greg Adams has said he is open to the idea of decentralising certain government services in the territory. Effectively, decentralisation has to […]

Speculation is growing about the current fitness of the Smith administration and its ability to properly govern since it is being described as a government that is no longer united. Opposition legislator Julian Fraser — who is among those questioning […]

Filing and managing court matters in the British Virgin Islands is soon expected to run more efficiently with the implementation of an online portal. The Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) and territories rolled out the initiative in a bid to […]

A Hispanic man who was recently caught smuggling himself on to Tortola for cigarettes was fined when he appeared before Magistrate Christilyn Benjamin on Friday. Cargo boat employee Angel Rafael Mena Collado was fined $500 after pleading guilty to the […]

By Esther Durand, BVI News Staff Junior minister for tourism Archibald Christian is calling for the Craft Alive Village in Road Town to be renamed in honour of the recently deceased legislator, Delores Christopher. Speaking at her official funeral ceremony […]